Tenebrae from the Ryedale Festival: R3 Evening concert 24 September 2024

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  • Pulcinella
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    • Feb 2014
    • 10890
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    Tenebrae from the Ryedale Festival: R3 Evening concert 24 September 2024

    Flagging this concert from the Ryedale Festival.

    Mark Forrest introduces a concert given by Tenebrae conducted by Nigel Short of music inspired by the theme of rest. Recorded at the beautiful Ampleforth Abbey on the edge of the North York Moors as part of this year's Ryedale Festival, Tenebrae's programme is built around Herbert Howell's profound and moving Requiem. It draws on a varied and contrasting selection of composers, from Pearsall, Holst and Sullivan to Cecilia McDowall, Caroline Shaw and Richard Rodney Bennett, creating a meditative and atmospheric evening reflecting ideas of deliverance and transcendance.

    Highly recommended by our choir director (some unseemly audience coughing aside!).


    Part 1

    Gustav Holst - The Evening Watch
    Cecilia McDowall - Standing as I do before God
    Francis Pott - The Souls of the Righteous
    Caroline Shaw - and the swallow
    Richard Rodney Bennett - A Good-Night
    Ralph Vaughan Williams - Rest
    Joel Thompson - A Prayer for Deliverance

    Interval
    From disc:
    Herbert Howells - selection from 'Lambert's Clavichord' performed by John Paul (lautenwerck)

    Part 2
    John Tavener - Song for Athene
    Ralph Vaughan Williams - Valiant for Truth
    Robert Pearsall - Lay a Garland
    Arthur Sullivan - The Long Day Closes
    Herbert Howells - Requiem
    William Harris - Bring us, O Lord
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  • Old Grumpy
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    • Jan 2011
    • 3596
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    Highly recommended by our choir director (some unseemly audience coughing aside!).

    Well if one does let riff-raff in!...


    ...Wasn't me guv!

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    • Pulcinella
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      • Feb 2014
      • 10890
      #3
      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post


      Well if one does let riff-raff in!...


      ...Wasn't me guv!
      I'm sure it wasn't: we all know how to behave.

      He also said that the continuity announcements were made during the concert rather than being spliced in afterwards in the studio.
      I wonder if that contributed to audience restlessness.

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      • Old Grumpy
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        • Jan 2011
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        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

        I'm sure it wasn't: we all know how to behave.

        He also said that the continuity announcements were made during the concert rather than being spliced in afterwards in the studio.
        I wonder if that contributed to audience restlessness.
        Perhaps - there were some quote long gaps during Mark Forrest's continuity pieces.

        Or it could have been the hard nature of the seating

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        • jonfan
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          • Dec 2010
          • 1422
          #5
          Looking forward to this. Classics with some newish items. What not to like!! Tenebrae will do them justice.

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          • hmvman
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            • Mar 2007
            • 1097
            #6
            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post

            Perhaps - there were some quote long gaps during Mark Forrest's continuity pieces.

            Or it could have been the hard nature of the seating
            The seating in Ampleforth Abbey is incredibly uncomfortable!

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            • Old Grumpy
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              • Jan 2011
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              Originally posted by hmvman View Post

              The seating in Ampleforth Abbey is incredibly uncomfortable!
              Perhaps it's designed not to be comfortable!

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              • hmvman
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                • Mar 2007
                • 1097
                #8
                Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post

                Perhaps it's designed not to be comfortable!
                I'm sure it is (was). It would be difficult to be that uncomfortable by accident.

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                • Old Grumpy
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                  • Jan 2011
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by hmvman View Post

                  I'm sure it is (was). It would be difficult to be that uncomfortable by accident.
                  Take a comfy seat:

                  Ryedale Festival on BBC Radio 3
                  https://mailchi.mp/51f2292159b7/ryedale-festival-on-bbc-radio-3?e=01e0051aee

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                  • DracoM
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                    • Mar 2007
                    • 12960
                    #10
                    Ampleforth Abbey is peaceful, has a fantastic but not crippling acoustic, and is a fine, fine pace for singers to perform. It is peace, uncluttered, and ennobling. Chairs, yes, but so what? Stop moaning and enjoy the music. FGS.

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                    • Old Grumpy
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                      • Jan 2011
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                      Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                      Ampleforth Abbey is peaceful, has a fantastic but not crippling acoustic, and is a fine, fine place for singers to perform. It is peace, uncluttered, and ennobling. Chairs, yes, but so what? Stop moaning and enjoy the music. FGS.
                      I did (enjoy the music) and I wasn't moaning (just musing)
                      Last edited by DracoM; 25-09-24, 18:40.

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                      • hmvman
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                        • Mar 2007
                        • 1097
                        #12
                        Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post

                        Take a comfy seat:

                        Ryedale Festival on BBC Radio 3
                        https://mailchi.mp/51f2292159b7/ryedale-festival-on-bbc-radio-3?e=01e0051aee
                        I did - I listened in the car on my way to Southampton! It was very enjoyable.

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                        • DracoM
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                          • Mar 2007
                          • 12960
                          #13

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                          • jonfan
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                            • Dec 2010
                            • 1422
                            #14
                            An overwhelming experience of a superbly constructed programme. The subtleties of interpretation very well caught by the engineering.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523
                              #15
                              Originally posted by jonfan View Post
                              An overwhelming experience of a superbly constructed programme. The subtleties of interpretation very well caught by the engineering.


                              Notably, for me anyway, as perfect a performance of Howells’s Requiem (in an ideal acoustic) as one could reasonably hope to hear this side of the Pearly Gates

                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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